Word: hub
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...over Billings (pop. 91,000), the scrappy hub city of the northwestern Great Plains, home to oil refineries, regional medical centers and countless smoke-filled fistfight barrooms where cowboys from Wyoming to South Dakota come for some urban R. and R., people are losing everything to crank--their families, their jobs, their homes, their bank accounts and, perhaps irretrievably, their minds. The potent, man-made stimulant--invented 80 years ago in Japan, issued to soldiers in World War II, prescribed to chunky housewives in the '50s, known to '60s hippies as speed and now sometimes passed out to antsy third...
DIED. TELFORD TAYLOR, 90, formidable Nuremberg prosecutor who held that "the laws of war are not a one-way street"; in New York City. An ardent New Dealer, Taylor joined the war effort in 1942 and worked on Nazi codes. Though at the hub of military intelligence, he learned of the Holocaust only as an assistant prosecutor at the first Nuremberg trial. He was chair of the next 12 trials, and his clarity and eloquence (he called Nazi Germany "an infernal combination of a lunatic asylum and a charnel house") led to 142 convictions. Later, as a lawyer...
...both institutions' top-level leaders see the restructuring's effect on undergraduates and alumnae as secondary to a larger mission: to join to create the premier hub of scholarship to explore interdisciplinary, cross-cultural issues of gender and society...
...Hotel, for instance, is offering a standard room, with all those freebies and more, starting at about $315 a night (that's down from nearly $900 in January). Both Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines are offering one free night in a hotel in their respective hub cities to lure passengers transiting to other destinations. Until May 31, Cathay Pacific is offering travelers an All Asia Pass, which includes a round-trip ticket from either New York City or Los Angeles to Hong Kong, for $999, with as many as 17 round-trip tickets in 30 days...
There are lots of exciting things happening in the world of computer technology. For example this month, 3Com announced that it will unveil a gigabit Ethernet hub. Netscape released the source code for its Web browser, and the Federal Communications Commission is flirting with the idea of taxing Internet telephony...